Democrat Congressman compares Trump immigration order to Japanese internment camps

The constant use of hyperbole has become a strategy of frenzied leftists who are malicious in their opposition to Trump, presenting his immigration order as a “Muslim ban” when in fact the order is “based on security reviews” under Obama. The seven nations named in the order “were drawn from the Terrorist Prevention Act of 2015.” The executive order has no mention of “Muslims” or “Islam,” and the largest Muslim majority countries are not mentioned in the order. According to information from Homeland Security, more countries could be added to the moratorium, which contains some flexibility that is unmentioned by leftist media, determined as it is to do as much damage as possible to President Trump, and malign him as a fascist.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) on Monday compared congressional Republicans’ acceptance of President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries to lawmakers who didn’t fight against the Japanese internment camps during World War II.

This irresponsible comparison not only exploits the innocent victims of the Japanese internment camps, but is a deliberate attempt to stir up hostility, division, and charges of racism in service of a political agenda that strives only to weaken America domestically and in the eyes of foreign enemies.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) on Monday compared congressional Republicans’ acceptance of President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries to lawmakers who didn’t fight against the Japanese internment camps during World War II.

The history of the U.S. government forcing Japanese Americans to live in camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor is personal for Takano: His parents and grandparents were among the people in those camps.

“History often forces us to ask ourselves: How would we have acted if we lived in that moment?” Takano mused in a fiery House floor speech. “Through the president’s recent executive order, we no longer have to wonder.”

“How you react to the Muslim ban today is how you would have reacted to the imprisonment of my grandparents and parents 75 years ago. If you are silent today, you would have been silent then. If you are complicit today, you would have been complicit then.”

Trump, a week into his presidency, issued an executive order temporarily barring U.S. entry for citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya. The order also indefinitely halts all Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S. and temporarily suspends all refugees.

Protests erupted at airports nationwide over the weekend amid confusion as to whether the ban applied to green card holders from the countries named in the executive order. Refugees, green card holders and other visitors were detained upon their arrival at U.S. airports starting on Friday evening after Trump signed the order.

The Department of Homeland Security later clarified on Sunday that allowing entry of lawful permanent residents was “in the national interest.” And a judge issued a stay on part of the order, ruling that previously accepted refugees and visa holders who were in transit could not be sent back to their countries of origin.

Dozens of House and Senate Republicans have either come out in opposition to the executive order or expressed concerns.

Democrats in both chambers have introduced legislation to overturn the executive order

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The Jap internment camps saved a lot of Japanese lives…I remember those times; Real Americans wanted to slaughter them in the streets…and would have if they could have found them; One was shot on the fence for the indiscretion of driving through Oak Ridge, TN, while the nukes were being ‘built’ and when he was stopped panicked. They still talk about it back there.

Internment camps for the islamics won’t be enough…it’s either them of US…and quite honestly, I like US better…islamics are totally expendable…they do nothing to make the world we live in better, and everything in their means to make everything worse or destroy US all…enough is enough…They Must Go!

Manzanar was a crime…no doubt about it! So is what Merkel and other idiots have done to the innocent populations of Europe! Trump is trying to save the USA (in the news today….another Muslim immigrant killing…of a transit driver in Denver). I don’t care if the Commies don’t like it….keeping OUT potential, foreign threats is NOT the same as imprisoning American citizens!

The way the Exec Order was rolled out, intended or not, has served a dual purpose, one of which is to expose the left as rebels without a cause. I’m hoping their absurdity doesn’t go unnoticed by anyone with an ounce of integrity. They’re standing on top of a steaming pile and claim it’s the moral high ground. P U.

Last night I heard on a TV broadcast that these idiots were demonstrating at the Supreme Court building before President Trump’s nominee was even announced. And the students at Berkley rioted last night to prevent a speaker from appearing. Cars were burned and rocks were thrown through windows.

Let’s see: picking up people who are already in your country, many of them born citizens, and rounding them up as a means to neutralize known spies/Japanese Imperial Army sympathisers without letting Japan know they had crack their codes and preventing citizens of other countries fro entering your nation because they might pose a clear, present threat to the people already living there. Yeah, pretty much the same thing… /sarc. off

“History often forces us to ask ourselves: How would we have acted if we lived in that moment?” Takano mused in a fiery House floor speech.

Would you have let known spies and saboteurs whom the government knew were in league with the Japanese military run amok in your country? Would you have thrown away the strategic advantage of your enemy not being aware that you cracked their codes? The more the Democrats backs are to the wall, the more shrill and hysterical they get – and the more they alienate people.

Why should Americans (that is what Nisei and Sansei mean–2d and 3d generations) of Japanese descent have been interned when You had General Ironcutter–oops, Eisenhower–commanding the troops in Europe, no less, while Adm. Nimitz (as Prussian a last name as they come) commanded out navy in the Pacific? And who ever even tried to round up all Americans of even Slovak descent (given Father Tiszo’s collaboration with the Nazis), a relatively small group of people?

The injustice of interning the Japanese-Americans in WWII cannot be compared with Trump’s executive order. The latter only impacts non-citizens, and many of the few hundred initially affected have already been cleared for re-entry. Further, so far from bring a “Muslim ban”, it affects travellers from only a handful of Muslim-majority states and has no impact at all on people coming from most of the Muslim-majority states on the planet (to say nothing of members of the large Muslim minorities in Russia, India, China, Bulgaria, and a number of other countries). Had our MSM been a little more responsible, it would be clear that Trump’s ban is chiefly to avoid having fleeing ISIS or AQIAP fighters coming to our country.

It also should be clear that it seems to have no impact on US citizens of Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian, Somali, Yemeni, Libyan, or northern Sudanese origin. Further, Trump’s order concerning non-US citizens from these countries also takes into account the special needs of persecuted minorities.

I am not a US citizen but I can tell you it is time we stopped many of these illegal Muslim immigrants. Ireland in its stupidity of course is against it. I am sick to death of these bad losers. It is time for tough politics too much rubbish has gone on in the last few years. Were I President I would have made exactly the same decision to protect above all the women of my nation – women are suffering exponentially from mass rape by these sick ignorant savages. Dump the religion become atheist of some other and live in the 21st Century and not the 7th. Another thing I would do is black-mail Saudi to take all muslim refugees and stick them in the tents 3million is it? Saudi and other middle eastern nations should be forced to rebuild why should the west? If the Sunni and Shiia want to kill each other off I would leave them to get on with it – then peace will be achieved. Another step, if war broke out, first targets Oil wells all over Iran Iraq Saudi and other Arab states – burn them and this will force these nations into bankruptcy – they will be forced to sell up all their assets around the world to rebuild the middle east Islamic nations. In fact I don’t know why Russia & the States don’t do this solve a whole load of problems. Oil doesn’t just come from the middle east and again the Arabs are manipulating the Oil prices on the commodities markets.

I agree 150% that we should armtwist twith SA, UAE, Turkey, and a few others to resettle these refugees. For Pete’s s,ake, the Ottoman Empire resttled scads of Muslim refugees from the Balkans, Greece, the Maghreb, the Kavkaz,, Crimea, and others lands lost to expanding Christian powers between the 17th and early 20th centuries. Its Turkish Republican successor can do no less–indeed, it took in a number of Muslim Central Asian refugees from Communism. I’ve known Turks from Istanbul who claimed Arab descent (but spoke only Turkish, English, and German), so there would be nothing to stop Turkey from absorbing a number of Syrians and Iraqis.

Trump told the world what he was going to do if he wins, and he won because of it not despite it. Close to three months on, and it’s almost amusing to see the progressives still in convulsions.

If there was any sanity left on the left they would ritually burn down the deranged Clinton press for being so blatantly partisan that even intellectually challenged American voters that hoisted a Muslim into the White House – twice – wised up to choose America’s last chance at survival over the most deceitful, corrupt and incompetent candidate in its election history.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) had better learn his and our history a little better.
These so call refugees streaming into the USA are in most part Hostile Insurgents.
This crisis in the Middle East with ISIS is a well planned out scenario orchestrated decades ago.
The Intent to supply solidarity muscle to the Radical Leftist “Revolutionaries” in exchange for spoils of the War on the USA. Creating a Massive Muslim migration covering their infiltration of the West is working much better than planned.
Many of the Japanese were here for generations before Pearl Harbor. These New Commer – Muslim Insurgents are mostly all Military Aged Males with a hostile anti – USA Constitution indoctrination under contraindicated Sharia. No Buddhist I know of ever killed a US Citizen for not believing in Buddha’s Teachings.
Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) Your irrational comparison makes you look stupid. Hopefully most do not think all Japanese are as ignorant as you.

Democrats are so-o sensitive, though! Such men of the people.
Shumer breaks down the other day; now this guy is offended and ‘reminded of what his family suffered’ at the hands of the US gov’t.
I’d bet his grandparents would be dammed insulted and ASHAMED of him, USING them & their memory in this underhanded and predictable Dem way.
Sleazy and sickening!

Takano is using the STRAW MAN FALLACY. Pres. Trump never asked for internment camps. He asked for new ways to screen potential terrorists from entering the US and part of it is to punish governments who sponsor terrorism to crack down on terrorists within their own borders.

THIS IS ENTIRELY SENSIBLE. Those countries that PRODUCE TERRORISTS SHOULD FIND THE TERRORISM SCHOOLS AND CLOSE THEM. Those lax countries that are condoning the TERRORISM SCHOOLS and TERRORISM TEACHERS, are not doing enough to stop them. They need to stop the production of jihadists if they want to play.

No innocent Muslims in the US will be arbitrarily arrested or detained and Takano knows that. Arbitrary arrest is something Hillary’s Democrats did in response to Benghazi. Did Takano speak out against THAT ARBITRARY ARREST?

And … one more time … ISLAM IS NOT A RACE … ISLAM IS A SUPREMACIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY. Repeat: an IDEOLOGY.

Even some Orthodox Bishops are against this order. So I am leaning to agree with them. This order needed more careful crafting. It cuts off refugees that may be in danger, including persecuted Christians and yazidis. We can’t probably imagine what these people have to suffer under Islamic State. If I had a family there and they couldn’t come where I am I would go where they are and die with them. My family was near a war zone once and there were missiles flying around. Of course American. At that time I was traveling to be with them as often as possible. If they die I would die with them. No one thought of saving us btw.

Naïve comment, no—one. First of all, this is a TEMPORQRY measure until we can get more permanent and better vetting into place. Secondly, I assume you didn’t hear President Trump say that preference would be given to those who have suffered the most—Christians. Learn to listen to what is said in the real world and not on the street by people with pink pig hats on. I was once caught in a war in the middle East and I took care of myself and managed to get to Rome. Wars happen. We must protect ourselves against barbarians. If you wish to go live with them, that is certainly your choice and as they say, this IS a free country. Good luck with that and let us know how it works out.

By the way, I don’t care what Orthodox Bishops are for or against. Irrelevant.

His grandparents would be turning in their graves if they knew what kind of disgrace their grandson is to Japan.The japanese are very good sort of people. They love their culture very much and they know very well about muslim culture. If anyone is interested here is a videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyJSvyz9eo

Leftists do not have the truth so they have to exaggerate.
Leftists do not have the truth so they have to manipulate people’s emotions.
Leftists do not have the truth so they have to try and rewrite the dictionary.

In light of the jihadi threat I think Trump’s executive order is correct. What Rep. Takano does not know is that in Japan muslims are kept under survelliance. We are not doing that here.

The Japanses internment was an injustice. Japenese Americans have told me about what went on in those camps. The American over reaction then, should not lead us to over compensate by not taking protective measures now.

I’m going to take a stand here and defend the Japanese internment, as well as the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

First, the interment… To my understanding of history a bit before my time, Pearl Harbour was more than a terrible blow. It was a sneak attack. The Japanese ambassador was on his way over to sign a peace treaty or some such as a diversionary tactic. Then when the fighting began, it was soon apparent that the Japanese fighters were fanatics in the cause for their god & Emperor. How was anybody supposed to know who to trust when it came to Japanese citizens in America? How could anybody trust a Jap at that time? (I guess you can’t call them “Japs” these days?)

I knew a man who fought in Okinawa. He was captured and in prison he was tortured regularly by the Japanese. 50 years later, he still couldn’t stand the sight of them.

Now I’m sorry to say this in a way because I like and respect Japanese people, and I understand how they must have suffered in America at the time. I am talking about events the occurred over 60 years ago, and how it must have seemed back then.

Now as far as the bombs go, I’m certain they spared thousands of lives, at least of American soldiers. The Japanese would never stop killing. Even if they were surrounded, they would take as many down with them as they fought to the death. Like I said, fanatics, not much different than ISIS. How do you deal with fanatics? You have to exterminate them.

Tell Takano to KOA!
Japanese Secret Societies and Military Intelligence, World War 2
”There were many secrets of Japanese espionage. Through a far-flung system of espionage, the Japanese employed Japanese immigrants, Japanese tourists, whorehouses, and restaurants as listening posts to gather raw intelligence information. One of the major reasons why all Japanese in America, were placed in internment camps was because there was irrefutable proof that every Japanese immigrant group in America and throughout the world, answered to a Japanese spymaster. Japanese immigrants not only carried out many spy operations, including Pearl Harbor, but they also engaged in paramilitary operations including assassinations.Japanese spymasters also utilized traitorous muslims throughout the world. In fact, a few Japanese spymasters adopted the muslim religion in order to be more influential with their many muslim agents. Japanese secret societies maintained the effectiveness of Japanese espionage until mid World War 2. After that, it was all downhill. Secrets of Japanese Espionage will astound you with its revelations of so many secrets of Japanese espionage in World War 2.” http://www.quikmaneuvers.com/secrets_of_japanese_espionage.html

The enemy and all the Useful Idiots are filling cyberspace and social-media with nonsense-and-lies, and also blocking the streets.

Well: time for sensible people to make some more noise ( the biggest noise;. of course, having already been made, by the click-clack of levers in the voting booths).

The full text of the letter created by ACT for America – an Open Letter to President Trump, in *support* of his executive order on immigration and ‘refugees’ – is provided.

Besides clicking the link and signing, there is *nothing* to stop people from reading through the letter and creating their *own* individual, personalised letter of support to the President and his team. Keep it short and sharp – just one page, three paragraphs, max.

The important thing is to FILL the Oval Office in-tray with so much real Love Mail that it drowns out the barrage of Hate Mail.

He’s part of the “minority stack,” and a Leftist (or do I repeat myself?) so OF COURSE he’s going to use the utterly retarded and invalid “Trumps-temporary-travel-ban-is-the-same-as-Executive-Order-9066” conflation. Doubly so as he is ethnically Japanese in particular.

No recognition that the ban is, as was said, temporary. No recognition that it is only being applied, in the main, to non-citizens from these seven countries whereas WWII Japanese internment was truly outrageous as it forcibly interned a group of people of which two-thirds were citizens. Not any of this to actually inform the debate. Nope. Just more “minority stack” ethnic politics. As if a jihadi from Syria and a third or fourth-generation Asian-American (or White, or Black, or Hispanic) Leftist have anything at all in common with each other apart from, perhaps, a shared disdain and hatred for conservatives, Middle America, and anything that doesn’t immediately fit or advance their tribalistic world-view……or maybe that’s the point and I’ve answered my own question.

The Nikkei in America HAVE been good immigrants and there was indeed a poorly thought out and un-constitutional policy of forced internment that was unfairly leveled against them. However, I would agree with others here that this does not mean it was equivalent to Third Reich konzentrationslager or the GULAG archipelago of the USSR. Not for a second. Of course, ethnic politics being what they are today you can’t just study Internment as a sad product of the attitudes, fears (some of them understandable, some of them not), of its own time, you have to view it as part of the Left’s own teleology of eternal non-White victim-hood. You can’t simply say, “while, at the time, internment was somewhat understandable due to the hysteria after Peal Harbor, ultimately it was not only constitutionally wrong but quite possibly also ineffective from a national security standpoint”….and then move on while compensating those that were wronged and letting the rest go.

No, we have to constantly be looking for, often in reality, very ephemeral surface “parallels” between Internment and anything that is enacted to strengthen our borders and target any non-Western immigrant……even if no citizens are having their rights taken away and no substantive real-world “parallels” between the two exist in actuality. This offers the minority grievance politics brigade a seemingly perfect but in reality rather shoddy “historical example of the results of ‘hate'” with which to equate anything that is less than complete open borders and globalism as the second coming of General DeWitt.

Most of all, one memory of my college days sticks out at me. I was a Japanese studies major in Uni and I actually took several classes on the Japanese Diaspora. In one of them my thesis advisor and prof – NO rightist and a complete Japanophile as you might expect given his academic focus and background – was talking to our class about how tribalism works into how history is remembered with that in mind. While the teacher had, as I also do, much admiration for the struggles of the Nikkei in America before the end of WWII, he also let us in on an open secret regarding ethnic politics – both as it involves some Nikkei today and pretty much any minority group anywhere at any time. This is particularly the case in an open society like ours when minority rent-seeking via the control of a given historical narrative – often implicitly framed as “our narrative, no dissent or other perspectives welcomed” – is allowed. He said: “Japanese immigrants and their descendants, insofar as they intersect their own in-group’s history with politics, will define themselves by, and push for, anything that is useful to them.” Nothing sinister in what he was saying but even though I’d had the thought long before myself it was nice to hear an otherwise-Leftist academician come right out and say it.

Takano and those like him are merely doing more rent-seeking because it is, as my teacher said, “useful to them” – whether in the collective or as individuals. Sad to see them playing so loose with the facts of their own emigre history though – and being such useful idiots for Globalism and Radical Islam potentially.

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